Anne Frank’s diary is the edition of the personal diaries written by the girl Anne Frank between June 12, 1942 and August 1, 1944, in a total of three notebooks preserved today, where she recounts her story as a teenager and the two years in which she remained hidden from the Nazis, with her German family of Jewish origin, in the city of Amsterdam (Netherlands) during World War II .
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Synopsis
Anne Frank is a 13-year-old German Jewish girl who, during World War II , goes into hiding to escape persecution by the Nazis. She, along with seven other people, remains hidden in the annex of a building in the Netherlands located on the Prinsengracht canal n ° 263, in Amsterdam.
After more than two years of being hidden, those in hiding are discovered and deported to concentration camps. Of the eight in hiding, only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survives the war. After his death, Ana becomes world famous thanks to the diary that she had begun to write a month before. She wrote it until the Gestapo discovered the hiding place.
Testimony
Ana with her mother Edith and her older sister Margot.
Anne Frank is undoubtedly the historical figure who has contributed the most to preserving the sad memory of the holocaust, which represents one of the greatest atrocities in the history of mankind. Her testimony serves to know the horrors of Nazism in all its dimension and harshness.
In her personal diary, which she began writing just a short time before the Nazi invasion, she recounts her feelings and emotions during her stay, hidden from view of the Nazi army. The hiding place was located in the offices where Ana’s father worked. His co-workers were in charge of providing the eight Jews with the food and clothing necessary for their stay, even knowing that there were strong reprisals against anyone who sheltered a Jewish at that time in the Secret Annex, the name with which they baptized their transitory dwelling, which today has become a museum . Two families lived in said attic: the Frank family, the Van Pels family, and an old dentist from the town .called Fritz Pfeffer. They tried in this way to protect themselves and prevent the Nazis from finding them and transferring them to concentration camps .
Anne Frank says that she only trusted her father, she told him all her problems since she felt more comfortable with him than with her mother. For her, her father was a good example of a man, while her mother seemed to her the worst example of a woman and a mother, because she believed that she could not bear to live her life as her mother, that only he took care of household matters.
She recounts her experience day by day. Most of the days are excessively annoying for her, in that hiding place she finds nothing to do, but some other days, according to her account, she spent them crying in her room since the confinement makes her mood drop. . The bad mood, it was also something quite normal in the hideout, the state in which they lived, disgusted most people. For this reason, the eight Jews hidden there did not establish a friendly relationship, they simply coexisted in the same space and tried to lead as normal a life as possible.
After a year in the Secret Annex, Ana became friends with Peter, the son of the Van Pels family. She details in her diary a certain infatuation between the two young people, she tells how most of the nights they spent in his room, looking through the window at the stars and the moon. Those were the happiest moments that she described during her stay in the hideout.
It appears among the stories of the newspaper, a robbery that occurred in the offices, which caused intense fear in the inhabitants of the annex. There was in their minds the horrifying thought that the Gestapo might find them, and the noises of the thieves in the offices caused the refugees to feel that they had been found. They realized that it was thieves when seeing them, the thieves ran away. The criminals would have imagined that they were security guards of the place.
Finally, the Dutch neighbors betrayed them to the German Nazis, who on August 4 , 1944 arrested them, divided the families and took them all to different concentration camps.
Other information about the book
Cover of one of the Spanish editions of the newspaper.
The book was a huge success around the world, especially in Israel , the United States and the United Kingdom , where it remained #1 on the bestseller lists for 20 consecutive weeks. It has sold more than 30,000,000 copies. Anne’s handwritten stories are in the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and the War Documentary Archive, also in Amsterdam. The book written by Anne “Stories” containing the first 35 stories, is kept in the Anne Frank House. The remaining loose sheets are kept in the Documentary Archive. Likewise, some of these stories are part of the Diario edition, so there are some insignificant differences between the original version and the loose sheets.
The following stories are included in the German version of the diary:
- “They broke in to steal?” ( March 25,1943 ) .
- “The Dentist” ( December 10,1942 ) .
- “Sausage Day” ( December 10,1942 ) .
- “The Coveted Little Table” ( July 13,1943 ) .
- “Anne and the theory” ( July 29,1943 ) .
- “The Afternoon and the Night in the Annex” (August 4, 1943).
- “Time to Eat” ( 5 Aug 1943).
- “The annex with eight people at the table” ( August 9,1943 ) .
- “When the clock strikeshalf past eight” ( 1943-08-23 ) .
- “The daily task in the community: Peel potatoes!” ( August 18,1943 ) .
- “Freedom in the Annex” ( August 20,1943 ) .
- “Kaatje” ( 7 de agostode 1943 ); “Katrie
publication
The content of one of the notebooks that make up Anne Frank’s diary.
His father, Otto Frank, was the only one of those in hiding to survive the concentration camps . When she returned to Amsterdam , Miep Gies, one of the people who had helped them during their stay in the annex, gave her the diary contained in five books and a stack of loose sheets that her daughter had written while they were in hiding. In 1947 , at Ana ‘s wish , her father decided to publish the diary and, since then, it has become one of the most widely read books in the world .
Otto usually puts the following words at the end of his letters:
I hope that Ana’s book can inspire you when you are older, so that in your environment you can fight, as far as possible, for peace and rapprochement between human beings.
The newspaper was published for the first time under the title Het Achterhuis (‘the Secret Annex’) in the Netherlands , in 1947 – two years after the end of the war – by the Contact publishing house. In April 1955 , the first translation into Spanish was published under the title The Back Rooms (Editorial Garbo, Barcelona ).
In 1959 , the diary was made into a film and in the United States it was adapted as a television series in 1967 . After Otto Frank’s death in 1980 , he bequeathed the writings to the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation . The Anne Frank Fund ( Switzerland ) is the heir to the copyright of the texts . In 1998, five more unknown pages of the aforementioned newspaper were published. The publication of The Diary of Anne Frank had an impact on public opinion and was even adapted for the theater in 1956by Frances Goodrich and to the cinema in 1959 by George Stevens.
Author information
Anne Frank, diary author
Annelies Marie Frank , known in Spanish as Ana Frank ( Frankfurt am Main , June 12, 1929 – Bergen -Belsen Nazi concentration camp , March 1945 ), was a German girl of Jewish descent, known worldwide thanks to Ana’s Diary Frank. Her father’s family had lived in Frankfurt for several generations. She had a sister three years older, named Margot. The economic crisis, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the growing anti-Semitic sentiment in society put an end to the family’s peaceful life. Otto Frank and Edith, his wife, decide – like many other Jewish Germans – to leave Germany .
They went into exile in Holland at the beginning of the Nazi persecutions. At the age of thirteen, she began keeping a diary that would later become one of the best-known best-selling works in history , The Diary of Anne Frank .
His sister, Margot Frank, also kept a diary, but no trace of it was ever found. On August 4, 1944, a commission of Gestapo agents under the command of SS Oberscharführer Karl Silberbauer arrested all the occupants and took them to different concentration camps. After spending time in the concentration camps of Westerbork (in the Netherlands) and Auschwitz (in Poland), Ana and her older sister, Margot, were deported to Bergen-Belsen, where they both died during a typhus epidemic between the end of February and mid-March 1945 (typhus was caused by the extreme lack of hygiene in the concentration camp).